Cezanne's Other: The Portraits of Hortense

In the voluminous scholarship that's been written on Paul Cézanne, little has been said about the twenty—four portraits in oil that Cézanne made of his wife, Hortense Fiquet Cézanne, over an extended twenty—year period. In Cézanne's Other: The Portraits of Hortense, Susan Sidlauskas breaks new ground, focusing on these paintings as a group and looking particularly at the differences that render many of them unrecognizable as the same person. She argues that Cézanne sidestepped the conventio...